Knitted fabric.



ROBERT Vf. SCOTT, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW N. D. WILLIAMS, OF O JERSEY, ASSIGNOR GDN TZ, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1e, 1910.

Application filed May 26, 1909. Serial No. 498,422.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. Sco'r'r,.a citizen of the United States, residing 1n Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey,

have invented certain Improvements in.

Knitted Fabrics, of a specification.

My invention relatesto that class of knitted fabrics which are p artly ribbed and partly plain, and present a greater number of wales in the ribbed web than in the plain web, a common instance of such fabric being found in that class of stockings in which the leg portion is composed of ribbed web and the foot portion of plain web, the ribbed web of the leg having a greater number 'of wales than the the manufacture of this class of stockings the ribbed leg webs are usually knitted upon an ordinary rib knitting machine and the stitches at one end of the said ribbed leg web are then run onto the needles of an ordinary which the following is 4 cylindrical knitting machine for knittin Cil the foot, the excess wales of the ribbed leg web being doubled onto needles of the footing machine. Usually there are twice as many wales in the ribbed web as in the plain web, the wales of the. latter forming continuations of the face wales of the ribbed web, and in ruiming said ribbed web onto the needles of the footing machine it is necessary to transfer t0 said needles the stitches of tl needles the stitches of the back wales of the web, these stitches having to be shogged laterally owing to the fact that in an ordinary ribbed web the back wales alternate with or lie midway between the face wales. The running-on operation, therefore, is one requiring considerable time and the exercise of a high degree of skill and it consequently adds materially to the expense of stockings of this class.

after set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in whichk Figure l is a accorda-nce with my invention, and Fig. 2 is an exaggerated View of a portion of said stocking at the poir., where the ribbcd'web joins the plain web.

plain web of the foot. In

View of stocking made in partly plain,

The ribbed web which constitutesthe leg portion of the stocking is knitted in accordance with my Letters Patent No. 899,439, dated September 22, 1908, and consists of two independent but interlocked ribbed webs, the wales of one web occupying the spaces between the wales of the other web, and the sinker wales crossing each fully set forth in the specilication of my said previous patent. l

In Fig. 2 of the drawing the Wales of one member of the duplex ribbed web are shown by unshaded lines and the wales of the other member of said duplex ribbed web are shown by shaded lines. The back Wales thereforelie directly behind the face wales and stitches of both wales can be applied to the needles of the footing machine simultaneously stitches of the back wales, transfer consequently the operation can be effected with the other, as

ron; i' i and without any".shogging of the` wales of the ordinaryribbed web, with a.

consequent saving of time and without the necessity of employing such highly skilled labor as is now required.

In Fig. 2 of the drawing, sent the terminal stitches of the front and back wales of the ribbed Web, which are Simultaneously applied to the needles of the footing machine, and c represents the stitches of thefirst after the application of the stitches of the ribbed web thereto.

Any desired character of foot web may be produced upon the needles of the fpoting machine, that which I have shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, being a foot web with the usual seamless heel and toe pocket.

claim:

l. A knitted fabric, partly ribbed and partly plain, the ribbed web being du lex, and the stitches of the initial course o the plain web being interknitted with wales of each member of said duplex ribbed web.

2. A knitted fabric, partly plain,

face wales,

a and b repre-V partly ribbed 'and and composed of duplex ribbed web having thebackA wales in line with the and plain web having the stitches:-k

of the initial 'course drawn through terminal wales of the ribbed duplex ribbed stitches of overlying web. r 3L A knitted fabric, part and comprising fue: 955,702

web lwith the bac-k Wales l'ying directly be- In testimony whereof, I have signed my hind the face Wales, each p ein web Wale bename to this specification, in the presence of ing interknitted with a face Wale and a back two subscribing Witnesses.

Wale of the ribbed web, and said face' and ROBERT W. SCOTT. back wales of the ribbed web being in line Witnesses: with the corresponding Wales of the plain HAMILTON D. TURNER,

web. y KATE A. BEADLE. 

